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How Sonder Improve 24/7 Employee Wellbeing with AWS AI

What this session is about

Sonder's mission is to empower people to be at their best, delivering the right care at the right time to over 1 million members globally across employers, universities, and insurance partners. To scale this mission without compromising quality, Sonder built an AI Copilot entirely on AWS, a 100% human-in-the-loop system designed with safety-first approach where Care Specialists remain at the centre of every interaction, with reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) continuously improving the Copilot's performance. This session explores the architecture behind it, including real-time triage, knowledge retrieval, and escalation workflows and shares the tangible business impact: faster response times, greater operational efficiency, and new service and revenue opportunities unlocked by AI.

Playbook

Editorial commentary · what to actually do about this on Monday

The concept
Human-in-the-loop AI with reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), in a safety-critical domain (mental health triage). Care Specialists remain at the centre of every interaction.
Why it matters
You cannot ship autonomous AI in safety-critical contexts without massive liability exposure. HITL is the floor, not a stopgap.
The hard parts
HITL only works if humans actually review. Reviewer fatigue, banner blindness, and rubber-stamping kill it within months unless you design against them.
Playbook moves
(1) Surface uncertainty explicitly in the UI — visually distinguish low-confidence cases. (2) Track human override rate as a quality signal. Override rate trending to zero means humans have stopped reviewing. (3) Audit a sample of low-override cases monthly.
The surprise
RLHF without operational rigor is just opinion-collection dressed up. The signal quality of human feedback drops fast under load — tired reviewers click through. Audit your reviewers, not just your model. The reviewer pool's calibration *is* your safety budget. ---

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